Synonyms of the word

expose

• v. (transitive) To reveal, uncover, make visible, bring to light, introduce to.
• v. (transitive) To subject photographic film to light thereby recording an image.
• v. (transitive) To abandon, especially an unwanted baby in the wilderness.
• v. To submit to an active (mostly dangerous) substance like an allergen, ozone, nicotine, solvent, or to…
• v. (computing, transitive) To make available to other parts of a program, or to other programs.

abandon

• v. (transitive, obsolete) To subdue; to take control of.
• v. (transitive) To give up control of, to surrender or to give oneself over, or to yield to one's emotions.
• v. (transitive) To desist in doing, practicing, following, holding, or adhering to; to turn away from; to…
• v. (transitive) To leave behind; to desert as in a ship or a position, typically in response to overwhelming…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To cast out; to banish; to expel; to reject.
• v. (transitive) To no longer exercise a right, title, or interest, especially with no interest of reclaiming…
• v. (transitive) To surrender to the insurer (an insured item), so as to claim a total loss.
• n. A yielding to natural impulses or inhibitions; freedom from artificial constraint, with loss of appreciation…
• n. (obsolete) abandonment; relinquishment.
• adv. (obsolete, not comparable) Freely; entirely.

affect

• v. (transitive) To influence or alter.
• v. (transitive) To move to emotion.
• v. (transitive) Of an illness or condition, to infect or harm (a part of the body).
• v. (transitive, archaic) To dispose or incline.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To tend to by affinity or disposition.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To assign; to appoint.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To aim for, to try to obtain.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To feel affection for (someone); to like, be fond of.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To show a fondness for (something); to choose.
• v. (transitive) To make a show of; to put on a pretence of; to feign; to assume. To make a false display…
• n. (obsolete) One's mood or inclination; mental state.
• n. (obsolete) A desire, an appetite.
• n. (psychology) A subjective feeling experienced in response to a thought or other stimulus; mood, emotion,…

blackguard

• n. A scoundrel; an unprincipled contemptible person; an untrustworthy person.
• v. To revile or abuse in scurrilous language.

break

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that…
• v. (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
• v. (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
• v. (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
• v. (transitive) To ruin financially.
• v. (transitive) To violate, to not adhere to.
• v. (intransitive, of a fever) To pass the most dangerous part of the illness; to go down, temperaturewise.
• v. (intransitive, of a storm or spell of weather) To end.
• v. (transitive, gaming slang) To design or use a powerful (yet legal) strategy that unbalances the game in…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
• v. (intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
• v. (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
• v. (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily.
• v. (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately)…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, etc.
• v. (intransitive, of morning) To arrive.
• v. (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
• v. (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
• v. (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
• v. (intransitive) Of a voice, to alter in type: in men generally to go up, in women sometimes to go down;…
• v. (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number), to do better than (a record), setting a…
• v. (sports and games).
• v. (transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote, to reduce the military rank of.
• v. (transitive) To end (a connection), to disconnect.
• v. (intransitive, of an emulsion) To demulsify.
• v. (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate.
• v. (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To fail in business; to become bankrupt.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
• v. (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change the gait.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To fall out; to terminate friendship.
• v. (of a horse) To tame, to horsebreak.
• n. An instance of breaking something into two pieces.
• n. A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
• n. A rest or pause, usually from work. Often the mid-morning breaktime in the school day.
• n. A short holiday.
• n. A temporary split with a romantic partner.
• n. An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast,…
• n. A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
• n. The beginning (of the morning).
• n. An act of escaping.
• n. (computing) The separation between lines or paragraphs of a written text.
• n. (Britain, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
• n. (sports and games).
• n. (dated) A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in…
• n. (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
• n. (music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
• n. (music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is,…
• n. (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as…

debunk

• v. (transitive) To discredit, or expose to ridicule the falsehood or the exaggerated claims of something.

desert

• n. (usually in the plural) That which is deserved or merited; a just punishment or reward.
• n. A barren area of land or desolate terrain, especially one with little water or vegetation; a wasteland.
• n. (figuratively) Any barren place or situation.
• adj. Abandoned, deserted, or uninhabited; usually of a place.
• v. To leave (anything that depends on one's presence to survive, exist, or succeed), especially when contrary…
• v. To leave one's duty or post, especially to leave a military or naval unit without permission.

desolate

• adj. Deserted and devoid of inhabitants.
• adj. Barren and lifeless.
• adj. Made unfit for habitation or use; laid waste; neglected; destroyed.
• adj. Dismal or dreary.
• adj. Sad, forlorn and hopeless.
• v. To deprive of inhabitants.
• v. To devastate or lay waste somewhere.
• v. To abandon or forsake something. (Can we verify^{([fullurl:Wiktionary:Requests for verification/English…}
• v. To make someone sad, forlorn and hopeless.

disclose

• v. (transitive, obsolete) To open up, unfasten.
• v. (transitive) To uncover, physically expose to view.
• v. (transitive) To expose to the knowledge of others; to make known, state openly, reveal.
• n. (obsolete) A disclosure.

discover

• v. To find or learn something for the first time.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To remove the cover from; to uncover (a head, building etc.).
• v. (transitive, now rare) To expose, uncover.
• v. (transitive, chess) To create by moving a piece out of another piece's line of attack.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To reveal (information); to divulge, make known.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To reconnoitre, explore (an area).
• v. (obsolete) To manifest without design; to show; to exhibit.

display

• n. A show or spectacle.
• n. (computing) An electronic screen that shows graphics or text.
• n. (computing) The presentation of information for visual or tactile reception.
• v. (obsolete) To spread out, to unfurl.
• v. (transitive) To show conspicuously; to exhibit; to demonstrate; to manifest.
• v. (intransitive) To make a display; to act as one making a show or demonstration.
• v. (military) To extend the front of (a column), bringing it into line.
• v. (printing, dated) To make conspicuous by using large or prominent type.
• v. (obsolete) To discover; to descry.

divulge

• v. (transitive) To make public or known; to communicate to the public; to tell (information, especially a…
• v. To indicate publicly; to proclaim.

endanger

• v. (transitive) To put (someone or something) in danger; to risk causing harm to.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To incur the hazard of; to risk; to run the risk of.

exhibit

• v. (transitive) To display or show (something) for others to see, especially at an exhibition or contest.
• v. (transitive) To demonstrate.
• v. (transitive, law) To submit (a physical object) to a court as evidence.
• v. (intransitive) To put on a public display.
• v. (medicine) To administer as a remedy.
• n. An instance of exhibiting.
• n. That which is exhibited.
• n. A public showing; an exhibition.
• n. (law) An article formally introduced as evidence in a court.

exposure

• n. (uncountable) The condition of being exposed, uncovered, or unprotected.
• n. (countable, uncountable) That part which is facing or exposed to something, e.g. the sun, weather, sky,…
• n. (uncountable) Lack of protection from weather or the elements.
• n. (photography) An instance of taking a photograph.
• n. (photography) The piece of film exposed to light.
• n. (photography) Details of the time and f-number used.
• n. (horticulture) The amount of sun, wind etc. experienced by a particular site.

forsake

• v. To abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce.

guy

• n. (Britain) An effigy of a man burned on a bonfire on the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot (5th November).
• n. (dated) A person of eccentric appearance or dress; a "fright".
• n. (colloquial) A man, fellow; also (especially in plural) in more gender-neutral sense, a person.
• n. (colloquial, of animals and sometimes objects) Thing, creature.
• n. (colloquial, figuratively) Thing, unit.
• n. (informal, term of address) Buster, Mack, fella, bud, man.
• v. (intransitive) To exhibit an effigy of Guy Fawkes around the 5th November.
• v. (transitive) To make fun of, to ridicule with wit or innuendo.
• n. (obsolete, rare) A guide; a leader or conductor.
• n. (chiefly nautical) A support rope or cable used to guide, steady or secure something which is being hoisted…
• n. (chiefly nautical) A support to secure or steady something prone to shift its position or be carried away…
• v. To equip with a support cable.

impact

• n. The striking of one body against another; collision.
• n. The force or energy of a collision of two objects.
• n. (chiefly medicine) A forced impinging.
• n. A significant or strong influence; an effect.
• v. (transitive) To compress; to compact; to press or pack together.
• v. (transitive, proscribed) To influence; to affect; to have an impact on.
• v. (transitive) To collide or strike.

impart

• v. To give a part or share.
• v. To communicate the knowledge of; to make known; to show by words or tokens; to tell; to disclose.
• v. To hold a conference or consultation.
• v. To obtain a share of; to partake of.

peril

• n. A situation of serious and immediate danger.
• n. Something that causes, contains, or presents danger.
• n. (insurance) An event which causes a loss, or the risk of a specific such event.
• v. (transitive) To cause to be in danger; to imperil; to risk.

queer

• adj. (now slightly dated) Weird, odd or different; whimsical.
• adj. (slightly dated) Slightly unwell (mainly in to feel queer).
• adj. (colloquial) Homosexual.
• adj. (colloquial) Not heterosexual: homosexual, bisexual, asexual, etc.
• adj. (broadly) Pertaining to sexual behaviour or identity which does not conform to conventional heterosexual…
• n. (colloquial) A person who is or appears homosexual, or who has homosexual qualities.
• n. (colloquial) A person of any non-heterosexual sexuality or sexual identity.
• n. (colloquial, vulgar, derogatory) General term of abuse, casting aspersions on target's sexuality; compare…
• n. (definite, with "the", informal, archaic) Counterfeit money.
• v. (transitive) To render an endeavor or agreement ineffective or null.
• v. (Britain, dialect, dated) To puzzle.
• v. (slang, dated) To ridicule; to banter; to rally.
• v. (slang, dated) To spoil the effect or success of, as by ridicule; to throw a wet blanket on; to spoil.
• v. (social sciences) To reevaluate or reinterpret (a work) with an eye to sexual orientation and/or to gender,…
• adv. Queerly.

reveal

• n. The outer side of a window or door frame; the jamb.
• n. (cinematography, comedy) A revelation; an uncovering of what was hidden.
• n. (chiefly Britain, Australia, New Zealand, obsolete in the US) The side of an opening for a window, doorway,…
• v. (transitive) To uncover; to show and display that which was hidden.
• v. (transitive) To communicate that which could not be known or discovered without divine or supernatural…

rib

• n. Any of a series of long curved bones occurring in 12 pairs in humans and other animals and extending from…
• n. A part or piece, similar to a rib, and serving to shape or support something.
• n. A cut of meat enclosing one or more rib bones.
• n. (nautical) Any of several curved members attached to a ship's keel and extending upward and outward to…
• n. Any of several transverse pieces that provide an aircraft wing with shape and strength.
• n. (architecture) A long, narrow, usually arched member projecting from the surface of a structure, especially…
• n. (knitting) A raised ridge in knitted material or in cloth.
• n. (botany) The main, or any of the prominent veins of a leaf.
• n. A teasing joke.
• n. (Ireland, colloquial) A single strand of hair.
• n. A stalk of celery.
• n. (archaic, literary, humorous) A wife or woman.
• v. To shape, support, or provide something with a rib or ribs.
• v. To tease or make fun of someone in a good-natured way.
• v. To enclose, as if with ribs, and protect; to shut in.
• v. (transitive) To leave strips of undisturbed ground between the furrows in ploughing (land).

ridicule

• v. (transitive) to criticize or disapprove of someone or something through scornful jocularity; to make fun…
• n. derision; mocking or humiliating words or behaviour.
• n. An object of sport or laughter; a laughing stock.
• n. The quality of being ridiculous; ridiculousness.
• adj. (obsolete) ridiculous.

roast

• v. (transitive or intransitive or ergative) To cook food by heating in an oven or over a fire without covering,…
• v. To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.
• v. (transitive or intransitive or ergative) To process by drying through exposure to sun or artificial heat.
• v. To heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To admonish someone vigorously.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To subject to bantering, severely criticize, sometimes as a comedy routine.
• v. (metalworking) To dissipate by heat the volatile parts of, as ores.
• n. A cut of meat suited to roasting.
• n. A meal consisting of roast foods.
• n. The degree to which something, especially coffee, is roasted.
• n. (Originally fraternal) A comical event where a person is subjected to verbal attack, yet may be praised…
• adj. having been cooked by roasting.
• adj. (figuratively) subjected to roasting, bantered, severely criticized.

scupper

• n. (nautical) A drainage hole on the deck of a ship.
• n. (architecture) A similar opening in a wall or parapet that allows water to drain from a roof.
• v. (Britain) Thwart or destroy, especially something belonging or pertaining to another; compare scuttle.

show

• v. (transitive) To display, to have somebody see (something).
• v. (transitive) To bestow; to confer.
• v. (transitive) To indicate (a fact) to be true; to demonstrate.
• v. (transitive) To guide or escort.
• v. (intransitive) To be visible, to be seen.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To put in an appearance; show up.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To have an enlarged belly and thus be recognizable as pregnant.
• v. (intransitive, racing) To finish third, especially of horses or dogs.
• v. (obsolete) To have a certain appearance, such as well or ill, fit or unfit; to become or suit; to appear.
• n. (countable) A play, dance, or other entertainment.
• n. (countable) An exhibition of items.
• n. (countable) A demonstration.
• n. (countable) A broadcast program/programme.
• n. (countable) A movie.
• n. (uncountable) Mere display or pomp with no substance.
• n. A project or presentation.
• n. (baseball, with "the") The major leagues.
• n. (mining, obsolete) A pale blue flame at the top of a candle flame, indicating the presence of firedamp.
• n. (obsolete) Semblance; likeness; appearance.
• n. (medicine) A discharge, from the vagina, of mucus streaked with blood, occurring a short time before labor.

subject

• adj. Likely to be affected by or to experience something.
• adj. Conditional upon.
• adj. Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.
• adj. Placed under the power of another; owing allegiance to a particular sovereign or state.
• n. (grammar) In a clause: the word or word group (usually a noun phrase) that is dealt with. In active clauses…
• n. An actor; one who takes action.
• n. The main topic of a paper, work of art, discussion, field of study, etc.
• n. A particular area of study.
• n. A citizen in a monarchy.
• n. A person ruled over by another, especially a monarch or state authority.
• n. (music) The main theme or melody, especially in a fugue.
• n. A human, animal or an inanimate object that is being examined, treated, analysed, etc.
• n. (philosophy) A being that has subjective experiences, subjective consciousness, or a relationship with…
• n. (logic) That of which something is stated.
• v. (transitive, construed with to) To cause (someone or something) to undergo a particular experience, especially…

tell

• v. (transitive) To count, reckon, or enumerate.
• v. (transitive) To narrate.
• v. (transitive) To convey by speech; to say.
• v. (transitive) To instruct or inform.
• v. (transitive) To order; to direct, to say to someone.
• v. (intransitive) To discern, notice, identify or distinguish.
• v. (transitive) To reveal.
• v. (intransitive) To be revealed.
• v. (intransitive) To have an effect, especially a noticeable one; to be apparent, to be demonstrated.
• v. (transitive) To use beads or similar objects as an aid to prayer.
• v. (intransitive, childish) To inform someone in authority about a wrongdoing.
• n. A reflexive, often habitual behavior, especially one occurring in a context that often features attempts…
• n. (archaic) That which is told; a tale or account.
• n. (Internet) A private message to an individual in a chat room; a whisper.
• n. (archaeology) A mound, originally in the Middle East, over or consisting of the ruins of ancient settlements.

touch

• v. Primarily physical senses.
• v. Primarily non-physical senses.
• v. To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
• v. To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
• v. (obsolete) To infect; to affect slightly.
• v. To strike; to manipulate; to play on.
• v. To perform, as a tune; to play.
• v. To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
• n. An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.
• n. The faculty or sense of perception by physical contact.
• n. The style or technique with which one plays a musical instrument.
• n. A distinguishing feature or characteristic.
• n. A little bit; a small amount.
• n. The part of a sports field beyond the touchlines or goal-lines.
• n. A relationship of close communication or understanding.
• n. The ability to perform a task well; aptitude.
• n. (obsolete) Act or power of exciting emotion.
• n. (obsolete) An emotion or affection.
• n. (obsolete) Personal reference or application.
• n. A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.
• n. (obsolete) A brief essay.
• n. (obsolete) A touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone.
• n. (obsolete) Examination or trial by some decisive standard; test; proof; tried quality.
• n. (music) The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument…
• n. (shipbuilding) The broadest part of a plank worked top and but, or of one worked anchor-stock fashion…
• n. The children's game of tag.
• n. (bell-ringing) A set of changes less than the total possible on seven bells, i.e. less than 5,040.
• n. (slang) An act of borrowing or stealing something.
• n. (Britain, plumbing, dated) tallow.

uncover

• v. to remove the cover of an object.
• v. To reveal the identity of.
• v. To show openly; to disclose; to reveal.
• v. (archaic) To divest of the hat or cap; to bare the head of.

unmasking

• v. present participle of unmask.
• n. The act by which somebody or something is unmasked.

unveil

• v. (transitive) To remove a veil from; to uncover; to disclose to view; to reveal.
• v. (intransitive) To remove a veil; to reveal oneself.

unwrap

• v. To open or undo, as what is wrapped or folded.